About “Coming of Age”

According to Clark Kent, this song was originally supposed to feature Lil’ Shyheim before Jay was introduced to Bleek.

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What have the artists said about the song?

In an interview for Kareem “Biggs” Burke and Megan Ryte’s “RD20” documentary DJ Clark Kent said that he and Jaÿ-Z made Memphis Bleek rhyme to them for four hours straight before they let him appear on “Coming of Age.”

What has Bleek said about the song?

I’ve known him my whole life, so it was just an opportunity in the summer time, he was coming through with DJ Clark Kent, and I saw him and telling him ‘Yo Jay I’m a rapper, and I want to be down with the crew,’ and he was like ‘You rhyme?’ He gave me a sheet of paper and he was like ‘as quick as you remember this as quick as you be on.’ So within the next hour, I went back to his apartment and was like ‘Hey, I remember the rhyme already.’ And that night we was in Clark Kent house and we did the song “Coming of Age.”

What has Jay said about the song?

Jay’s description is slightly different to Bleek’s. During Decoded he claimed to have scoped Bleek out for the role, and had this to say:

I collared him and said ‘Look, I’m making an album and you can be on it, but you have to learn this song in twenty four hours. You don’t learn it, then you’re not on it.’ He took the paper I handed him and looked it over. I’d written the verse down for him in some chicken scratch… He came to my apartment the next day and spit the whole thing like he’d been doing it his whole life.